Fish, Chip & Champagne Crime Night
With Christopher Brookmyre and Mark Billingham
Cairns Church, Milngavie - Saturday 10th Sept - 7.30pm
Doors open 7.15pm
Join us with what promises to be a stimulating, entertaining and very witty evening with one of crime writing’s most talented double acts.
To describe Christopher Brookmyre simply as a crime writer would be a crime in itself. This “raconteur, singer and comedian manqué” (Edinburgh Festival) has just published a new crime thriller – Where the Bodies are Buried – which confirms his status as one of the greatest writers in the crime genre: Quite Ugly One Morning was the winner of the Critics' First Blood Award for Best First Crime Novel of the Year in 1996, Bampot Central was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Dagger in 1997, Boiling a Frog won the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective in 2000 and All Fun And Games until Someone Loses an Eye was the winner of the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2006.
Thorne is back, and bigger than ever in Good as Dead: Mark’s Billingham’s first new novel since the hit TV drama Thorne, a television series based on DI Tom Thorne.
Mark Billingham has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier prize for best novel of the year. Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001. He lives in North London with his family
